Many people, both within the UK and in other countries, even (and especially) people who are competent at things like economics, are pointing out how Brexit was such a bad idea and how it turned out to be pretty much a disaster for the country, how the economy of the country is in shambles and how the UK has got no benefit at all from having exited the European Union. They say that people who voted for Brexit didn't really know what they were really voting for, and what the consequences would be.
One thing that they don't seem to consider is whether the current post-Brexit economic situation of the UK was caused directly and solely because of leaving the EU, or whether, possibly, the economy of the country has been pretty much sabotaged by the government of the country.
That might sound like just a conspiracy theory, but I believe there may be some merit in that idea.
For starters, when the UK made the final decision to leave the EU, they had a whopping four years of time to prepare for it. They didn't leave immediately, but instead they remained in the EU for four more years after the decision, in order to prepare for the transition. That's not a small amount of time. It should have been plenty.
Yet, when four years later the country finally officially left the EU, it was like it came as a complete surprise. Somehow, suddenly there were enormous problems in trading, transport, travel, working status (both of foreigners in the UK and UK citizens in other countries) and so on and so forth. For example trucks transporting goods into and from the country all of a sudden encountered enormous bureaucratic and logistical burdens at the border between the UK and France, people suddenly encountered problems when trying to travel for work, and so on and so forth.
It really was like everything changed overnight, and all these problems had just suddenly appeared, and nobody was prepared for it.
This even though the country had a whopping four years to prepare for exactly this.
What did the government of the UK did during these four years to help the matter? Pretty much nothing. Pretty much the only thing the government did during these four years was bicker and moan, engage in infighting, try to convince the country to reverse the decision, and try to make completely insane deal agreements with the EU which would have pretty much made the UK a vassal state of the EU (where the UK would still need to pay the EU as much money as it did before, but without the UK having any say in the decision-making of the EU, and receiving almost no benefits that it did before).
They had a whopping four years to prearrange and prepare for all the problems that would eventually appear when they finally officially exited the EU, yet when that day came, they were completely unprepared for those problems. They did pretty much nothing to prepare for them.
Has the situation become better over the years after the final exit? Nope. In fact, it has been the opposite.
For example, one of the main reasons why people voted in favor of Brexit was so that the country could more easily restrict uncontrolled unrestricted immigration, so that immigration would be significantly more controlled and would plummet. Yet, that's exactly the opposite of what's happening in the UK: Immigration, especially people illegally entering the country (and being just taken in by the authorities at the expense of the taxpayers) is at an all-time high, breaking record after record. Rather than restrict immigration because of not being bound by EU laws anymore, the exact opposite is happening. And it's happening because the government is allowing it to happen (and spending millions of pounds of taxpayer money every single day to make it happen). They wouldn't have to (because they are not bound by EU agreements anymore), but they are doing it anyway.
That sounds like deliberate sabotage to me.
Economic growth in the UK is down, taxes are at an all-time high, trade has fallen very significantly, inflation is almost completely out of control.
Is that because of Brexit, or is it because the government is sabotaging the economy of the country as some kind of strange (deliberate or semi-unconscious) "revenge" for Brexit?
It might be a bit of both, but I have the gut feeling that it's more of the latter than the former.
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